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Coping with chronic illness and disability through creative needlecraft [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Chronic illness and impairment commonly restrict the individual's access to work and leisure activities. Furthermore, if increasingly dependent upon family care, the individual may experience loss of valued roles and self- esteem.
Reynolds, F
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Young people's leisure and risk-taking behaviours: changes in gender patterning in the West of Scotland during the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Until the 1990s, the literature on youth leisure characterized that of females as home-based, passive and largely absent from male-dominated subcultures.
Sweeting, H., West, P.
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Relationship of Leisure Time Activities With Fatigue and Mental Health Problems in People With Multiple Sclerosi

open access: yesJournal of Rehabilitation, 2021
Objective: One of the essential aspects of life in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is leisure time activities. One of the duties of occupational therapists is the evaluation and implementation of therapeutic interventions in the field of leisure ...
Sahar Nurani Gharaborghe   +1 more
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Internet use and its impact on engagement in leisure activities in China. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Internet use has become an increasingly common leisure time activity among Chinese citizens. The association between Internet use and engagement in leisure activities is especially unclear among China population.
Ronggang Zhou   +2 more
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Active Leisure [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Jesuit Studies, 2014
The philosophy of education of the first Jesuits—as delineated in the Ratio studiorum (1599) and embodied in the colleges’ practices—has become one of the preferred topics among historians of sixteenth-century education and philosophy. This paper seeks to present a heretofore rather neglected aspect of Jesuit education theory: the treatment of the body
openaire   +1 more source

Analysis of China-Pakistan Leisure Sports Industry under the Background of "The Belt and Road"

open access: yesThe Sky, 2021
Scholars stress the importance of leisure sports activities for a healthy body and mind. There is a positive correlation between socioeconomic uplift and leisure sports activities.
Huang Liang
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Among Leisure Activities, Depression and Quality of Life in Community-Dwelling Elderly Koreans

open access: yesGerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2020
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the relationship among leisure activities, depression, and quality of life of community-dwelling elderly in Korea. Methods: We assessed 100 community-dwelling older adults.
Eun-Hwa Jeong OT, PhD   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leisure activities for the development of creative intelligence in mathematical problem solving [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The present work studies the influence of leisure activities on the creative intelligence of the students. An experimental pre- and post-test design was carried out with individuals selected in a sampling process.
Acosta Chávez, Tannia Gabriela   +3 more
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An investigation on perceived constraints of teachers in relation to leisure activities

open access: yesTürk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi, 2017
This paper examines perceived constraints of physical education and other branches teachers (music/arts) in relation to leisure activities. After legal permissions 228 teachers, who work in city center Kütahya (a city in the west part of Turkey ...
Adnan Ersoy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship between specific leisure activities and successful aging among older adults

open access: yesJournal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2023
Background/Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the association between specific leisure activities and successful aging among older adults, using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey.
Xiaoguang Zhao, Jiabin Yu, Nan Liu
doaj   +1 more source

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